This blog addresses the fatal flaw at the core of capitalism as a system of human psycho-socio-political-economic collective self-reproduction, a flaw which ultimately renders it a self-DIS-organizing, self-destroying system -- as is becoming increasingly evident. It also details the successor system to capitalism, the new system that represents the higher, positive way forward for humanity: Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, or EQUITISM.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Neo-Classical Economists on the Logic,
Science, and Ethics of ‘Technodepreciation’.

Dear Readers,

Once again, we delve into the discourse, among capital’s ideological/scientific
servants, about the capitalists’, and capitalism’s, fatal flaw of ‘technodepreciation’, i.e., of productive-force-growth-induced self-devaluation of past-accumulated
capital-value.

Marxians can definitely gain -- a great deal -- from
intensively observing, examining, and analyzing such discourses ‘‘‘psychohistorically’’’, that is, equipped with the «organon» of the Marxian
paradigm of ‘psychohistoricalmaterialism’.

See, for yourself, another case in point, below.

Be Apprised!

Regards,

Miguel

My commentary regarding these extracts is imbedded within
them, or below them, in separated paragraphs, beginning with the label
‘M.D.:. . .’.

1.:“The output from equipment produced
to-day will have to compete, in the course of its life, with the output from
equipment produced subsequently, perhaps at a lower labour cost, perhaps by an
improved technique, which is content with a lower price for its output and will
be increased in quantity until the price of its output has fallen to the lower
figure with which it is content.”

“Moreover, the entrepreneur’s profit (in terms of
money) from equipment, old or
new, will be reduced,
if all output
comes to be produced more cheaply.”

“In so far as such developments are foreseen as
probable, or even as possible, the marginalefficiencyofcapital produced
to-day is appropriately diminished.”

M.D.:In this
quote, Keynes states, in Keynesian lingo, essentially what Marx stated as
follows:“The constantly ongoing devaluation of capital, owing to the increase in the force of
production, has to be
compensated ... .” [Karl
Marx, Grundrisse, Penguin Books, 1973, p. 317].The term “marginal efficiency of capital” was
introduced by Keynes in his famous 1936 book entitled The General Theory of Employment,
Interest and Money, wherein he defined “the “marginal efficiency of
capital” as “the rate of discount which would make the present value of the
series of annuities given by the returns expected from the capital asset during
its life just equal its supply price.”.Keynes does not explore, in this passage, the consequences of this
capitalism-immanent ‘continual
technodepreciation’ of capital plant and equipment for the capitals-system
as a whole.

However, I believe that we would be correct in
supposing that he was aware of them.Indeed, per our hypothesis, this knowledge was what led to Keynes role
in propagating the ‘Rocke-Nazi’-engineered
ideology of Eugenics
in the first place.Keynes was director
of the, ‘Rocke-Nazi’,
British Eugenics Society,
1937-1944, and a race-bigot,
for example describing Einstein, after Einstein published his General Theory of
Relativity, as “a naughty Jew-boy, covered in ink” [David Bodanis, E = MC2:A
Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation, Walker & Co.,
[NY:2000], p. 217].

No doubt there are great benefits to the ‘Rocke-Nazis’, to the private owners of the
“Federal” Reserve, in Keynes pro-state-capitalist prescriptions,
calling for national government deficits that led to a vast “military-industrial complex”
[Eisenhower], and to huge and continuing debt-service payments -- paid out of
taxes on workers’ incomes, as a kind of new form of surplus-value, and
apparently paid in perpetuity -- to the plutocratic -- especially to the ‘Rocke-Nazi’ -- banks, and other
“investors”, who largely supply the loans, and buy the government bonds, to
finance these ‘‘‘national debts’’’.Keynes was a de facto supporter of Hitler, like the rest of the ‘Rocke-Nazis’, while Hitler was still a
Eugenics ‘servant-dictator’,
serving the ‘Rocke-Nazis’,
along with British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain, also a member of
the, ‘Rocke-Nazi’,
British Eugenics Society,
who, as revealed by a release of recently declassified materials by the British
National Archives, in September 2011, attempted, in secret, to make a peace pact with Germany in 1938, and to help the Nazis with PR to achieve an image
more palatable to ordinary Britons[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033502/Revealed-Chamberlains-secret-bid-reach-deal-Hitler.html].Keynes even
wrote, in his Preface to the German edition of his General Theory,
that “in offering a theory... which departs in important respects from
the orthodox tradition” [he might expect] “less resistance from German,
than from English, readers” [because Keynes’s theory was]“much more easily adapted to the
conditions of a totalitarian state” [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4401913?uid=3739960&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104213863643].Keynes even
met with Hjalmar Schacht -- who later became ‘Hitler’s Keynesian’; Hitler’s President
of the Reichsbank and Nazi Minister of Economics, implementing Keynesian
policies in Nazi Germany -- on Keynes’s way back from an advisory trip to
totalitarian Russia.Keynes -- and
Chamberlain -- only withdrew their support from the Hitler Eugenics regime once Hitler
ceased to serve the ‘Rocke-Nazis’,
turning from ‘servant-dictator’ to ‘Franken-dictator’, signaling his intension
to take over the world, wresting control away from the ‘Rocke-Nazis’, by, e.g., signing the
“Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact -- officially named the “Treaty of Non-Aggression
Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”, on 23 August 1939. For more about these hypotheses, see --

2.:“The
point under discussion is met with in the case of privately-owned undertakings when a technicaldiscovery
affords the opportunity for installing a new equipment or capital improvement
which is technicallysuperior to an equipment which is already
being employed.”

“The
equipment being employed,
that is to say, may be rendered
obsolescent and this may occur before the equipment has earned
sufficient revenue to cover its past cost.”

“The question
then arises whether the prices of the output of the equipment should be
such as will bring in sufficient revenue to cover the prospective costs of
producing that output or whether the revenue aimed at should cover, in addition, the uncovered part of the original cost
of the old equipment.”

“As is clear from our discussion of costs and pricesit is the first alternative
which is economically advantageous to the community; in other
words, the
“undepreciated” part of the oldequipment, as it may
be called in conventional accountancy language, should bewrittenoff.”

“A
firm operating in conditions of competition may have littlechoice
but to adopt this policy because of the likelihood that other, competingfirms which have
taken advantage of the technical improvement will undersell.”

“But if
the firm possesses a high degree of monopoly it can,
if it is so disposed, try to recoup the loss on the oldequipment out of the revenueearnedby the new,
in which case the benefit
conferred by the technical superiority of the new equipment is not being passed
on to the community.”

M.D.:When the
rate of costs-of-production-reducing technological innovation in fixed capital
plant and equipment accelerates beyond a certain degree, in an acceleration
which is an immanent, “lawful” feature of the competitive capitals-system, and
in the context of the, also immanently, “lawfully” tendential, growing
preponderance of fixed capital plant and equipment in the composition of,
especially, the most centralized, most consolidated, most concentrated, most
advanced industrial enterprises, owned or controlled by the plutocratic core of
the capitalist ruling class, the above-prescribed write-offs of technodepreciated,
incompletely-amortized fixed capital plant and equipment, tendentially rising in
value and in frequency, accounting period after accounting period, netting-out
against, and dragging down, profits, during those accounting periods, threaten
to destroy the profitability of industrial capital, and to dethrone the
reigning core of the capitalist ruling class.The response of that core ruling class to this threat? -- Eugenics, The 1913 Federal Reserve Act, The 1913 Federal Income Tax, the 1914+First
World War, the 1930s Great Depression,
State-Capitalist Totalitarianism
[e.g., both Fascism
and Stalinist pseudo-socialism],
and [1939+] Second World War, the “Military-Industrial Complex”, the ~1900+ suppression of industrialization in the Eastern
European, Asian, South American, and African peripheries of the core countries
of industrial capitalism [i.e., in the UK, Western Europe, and the US] -- the ~1900+ creation/imposition
of the“Third World” -- the
engineering and funding of ‘neo-Eugenic’,
“People Are Pollution”,
Pro-Genocide,
‘PRO-HUMANOCIDE’ideologies, the “Great Recession” . . .Milne and Laight are quite right, in the
quote above, to state that ruling class resistance to “writing off” the
increasingly-recurring ‘technodepreciation’
of their industrial fixed capital plant and equipment means that “the benefit conferred by the technical
superiority of the new equipment is not being passed on to the community”.However, that ‘economic-ethical’ argument is
of no value in convincing that ruling class to change its ways.Not passing the benefits of the growth of the
social forces of production on to the larger community is the very core of the modus
operandi of that core ruling class, from its very birth as such, by its perpetration
the vile social violence of “original
accumulation” itself.

3.:“We
should perhaps at this point note that a firm whose capital is obtained mainly or wholly on a loan
basis is in a much
more vulnerable position financially than a firm which is financed largely or
wholly by risk-capital.”

“Suppose a firm has purchased out of finance provided
on a risk basis an equipment costing £10,000 and that, in the event, it is
found that the results of the investment have fallen short of expectation.

“The response of the public to the output produced
with the aid of the equipment may have proved disappointing.”

“Suppose that, taking this lower response into
account, the firm estimates that an equipment of lower capacity costing £8,000
would have been a better proposition and that, when the original resource wears
out, it should be replaced by this lower-capacity resource.”

“But on
the originalinvestment a loss will have been sustained,
and this will fall to be borneby the providers of the risk-capital.”

“But, retaining the same illustration, now suppose that the finance were
provided on a loan basis.”

“The loss will be the samebut the loan out of which the original equipment was
purchased will remain to the full amount a liability of the firm
and the [M.D.:principal and] interest payments [M.D.:the “debt-service” payments] as fixed in the loan contract will still have to be
met.”

“These interest payments, arising as they do from a
past investment, while not representing costs in the economicsense, will be of the nature of financial charges which, if not met, may lead to the firm being received into
bankruptcy.”

“It is evident that given the differing characteristics
of loan- and risk-capital
a firm financed by loancapital will be financially the morevulnerable
in a situation where expectations fail to be fulfilled.”

M.D.:Not only
does its acceptance of, e.g., ‘Rocke-Nazi’ bank
loans -- loans from J. P. Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, etc. -- in
place of “risk-capital”, e.g., the proceeds of capital equity stock sales, via
IPOs, etc, place an enterprise in greater danger of failure and loss of
ownership, e.g., when ‘technodepreciation strikes’ [the example of the quote
above is of lack of expected demand for commodity output, not of
pre-amortization ‘technodepreciation’ of the producing equipment, but the two
cases are parallel].Fixed capital plant
and equipment purchased with the proceeds of loans may, if ‘technodepreciated’
prior to amortization, be scrapped and replaced with the new, state-of-the-art,
competitive plant and equipment, but the debt service on the scrapped equipment
still has to be paid, as well as the debt-service on the new plant and
equipment, if it too was, once again, purchased via bank loans.Moreover, the ‘Rocke-Nazi’ banks can offer loans on
seemingly favorable terms, and then orchestrate “capital asset bubbles” --
through the method of “Capital Asset Bubble Engineering”, that was advanced by
also-early-Hitler-supporter Joe Kennedy, when his Kennedy family was still in
good standing with the Rockefellers as one of their lower plutocracy
servant-families, like the Bush family of Hitler-financier Prescott Bush -- “bubbles”
that result in the expropriation, by bankruptcy, of the original owners of
these enterprises, and in the ‘Rocke-Nazi’
“carpetbaggers” acquiring ownership of the thus-made-vulnerable, and, in
effect, assassinated, firms, for the proverbial “pennies on the dollar”. For more about this hypothesis, see --

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Dialectically
Reconstructing the Dialectic
of the ‘‘‘Intended’’’ Content of the 5 Unwritten

“Books” of Marx’s Planned Immanent Critique of Political
Economy as a Whole --

‘Reading Marx’s Mind, Psychohistorically’.

Dear Readers,

The text below represents my attempt to reconstruct [at
least the first two levels of the table of]
[the] contents of the five remaining,
unwritten books of the six books, planned by Marx, for his dialectical,
immanent critique of the ideology-pervaded, ideology-compromised science of
classical political economy, the classical
economic science/ideology of modern, capital-centered society, i.e., of the
society whose all-dominating social relation of production is what Marx
called “the capital-relation”.

Only the larger part* of the first “book” -- the “book” entitled “Capital:a Critique of Political Economy”
-- was completed, and published, by Marx and Engels, as of 1894, after Marx’s
death in 1883,
and shortly before Engel’s death in 1895.That
first “book” alone spans four
“volumes”, and is usually printed in six separate codices --

1.Capital:a Critique of Political Economy,
volume I:

the Productions-process of Capitals;

2.Capital:a Critique of Political Economy,
volume II:

the Circulations-process of Capitals;

3.Capital:a Critique of Political Economy,
volume III:

the Overall-process of capitalist
Production;

4.Capital:a Critique of Political Economy,
volume IV:

Theories of Surplus Value [The History
of the Theory], in 3 Parts / 3 separate volumes.

My instrument
for this project is the “intuitional”, “intensional” [“connotational”],
heuristic «organon»
of the Seldonian ‘First DialecticalAlgebra’, applied in exploratory mode, i.e., to
semantically “solve”, step-by-step, a step-valued,
equation-valued, ‘Dyadic Seldon-Function’ “dialectical method of presentation”
‘meta-equation’, which begins with the category named Capital as its «arché» category.

The goal for this blog-entry is to dialectically calculate two ‘“Tables of Content”’
for the content that Marx envisioned -- based upon a marshaling of all
available evidence as to his intensions in that regard -- for his entire “Critique of Political Economy”: all six+ “books”.

One of the two versions of that dialectically-calculated list of ‘ideo-physio-ontological’, categorial contents will be presented in ‘dialectical-analytical language’.

The other will be presented in a more popularized, ‘“literary”’ language.

Far beyond this blog-entry, a goal of the Foundation is to publish a multi-volume treatise entitled“Descendance-Phase Capitalism”, which will, to the best of our ability, actually carry-out, and fill-out, or fulfill, the content summarized in that ‘“table of content”’, in a way which assimilates all of the wealth, including the tragedies, of modern human experience
and knowledge -- stripped of ideology -- since Marx wrote his last line
about this domain, as Marx often indicated that he fervently hoped his
followers would do, for the good of the -- growing -- majority of humankind, the working
class, and, therefore, for the good of global humanity as a whole.

Enjoy!

Regards,

Miguel

*[Even this vast expanse of text is still missing, for
example, Marx’s full, systematic[-dialectical]
presentation of so crucial a topic as “the
competition and concentration of capitals”, let alone the topic of capitalist crises!]

a.Marx’s Plan for his
Overall “Critique of Political Economy”.Marx’s pre-Das Kapital book, entitled A Contribution
to the Critique of Political Economy, published, by Marx, in 1859, eight years
before his publication of volume I.
of Das Kapital, opens, in its world-famous Preface, with the
following statement --

“I examine the system of bourgeois economy in the
following order:capital, landed
property, wage-labour; the State, foreign trade, world
market.”

“The economic conditions of the three great classes into
which modern bourgeois society is divided are analyzed under the first three
headings; the interconnection of the other three headings is self-evident.”

“The first part of the first book, dealing with Capital,
comprises the following chapters:1. the
commodity; 2. money or simple circulation; 3. Capital in general”.

“The present part consists of the first two chapters.”

“The entire material lies before me in the form of
monographs, which were written not for publication but for self-clarification
at widely separated periods;their
remoulding into an integrated whole according to the plan I have indicated will
depend upon circumstances.”

[Karl Marx, A
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, International
Publishers [NY: 1970], p. 19].

In the «Grundrisse» manuscripts, which form a
major part of the “entire material . . . in the form of monographs . . .
written not for publication but for self-clarification . . .”, Marx enlarges
upon this six «Buch»s plan, announced above, in crucial ways
--

“< I.

(1) General
concept of capital.-

(2)
Particularity of capital:circulating capital, fixed capital.(Capital as necessaries of life, as

raw
material, as

instrument
of labour.)

(3)Capital as money.”

“II.

(1)Quantity of capital.Accumulation.

(2)Capital measured by itself.Profit.Interest.Value of capital:i.e. capital as distinct from itself as interest and profit.

(3)The circulation of capitals.

(a)Exchange of capital and
capital.Exchange of capital with
revenue.Capital and prices.

(b)Competition of capitals.

(g)Concentration of capitals.”

“III.Capital as Credit.”

“IV.Capital
as share capital.”

“V.Capital as money market.”

“VI.Capital as source of wealth.The capitalist.”

“After
capital, landed property would be
dealt with.”

“After
that, wage labour.”

“All three presupposed, the movement of prices,
as circulation now defined in
its inner totality.

On
the other side, the three classes, as
production posited in its three basic forms and presuppositions of
circulation.”

“Then, the state.(State and
bourgeois society.-Taxes, or the existence of the unproductive classes.- The state debt.- Population.”

“The
state externally:colonies.External trade.Rate of exchange.Money as international coin. -”

“Finally the worldmarket.Encroachment of bourgeois society over
the state.Crises.Dissolution of the mode of production and form of society based on
exchange value.Real
positing of individual labor as social and vice versa.) >”

Most crucially, from Marx’s
extended outline of his plan, extracted above, we learn that it is the final
“book” of the six, the one to be entitled “World Market and Crises”, that is to house
the climactic crescendo of Marx’s life’s work:his scientific,
systematic[-dialectical] presentation of
capitalist crisis,
and of no less than the self-«aufheben» self-revolutionary self-transition of
self-alienated, capital-centered -- not
yet humanity-centered -- human society, into a new, higher social relation of
production, into a new mode of human social self-reproduction, propelling
itself from ‘“the closing chapter of human prehistory”’ [my
paraphrase of Marx, Preface, A Contribution to the
Critique of Political Economy, p. 22] to the opening chapter of human[e] history proper.

What Marx meant by the
phrase “critique of political economy” was not a narrow, specialized, esoteric,
academic concern, but, on the contrary, a universal human concern, eloquently
captured in Maximilien Rubel’s rich and impassioned rendering --

“Marx’s Capital is a history of a world in the
course of self-destruction, a pathology of an inhuman[-human -- M.D.] society
... .The real target behind Marx’s
criticism of the science
of political economy was a specific mode of existence, the mode of life and
labor of [a] humanity threatened by its own achievements, its technical
inventions and institutions.Capital,
itself a scientific
work, is directed against a science
whose pretext is the wealth of nations and whose raison d’être is
the enslavement of
“the poorest and the most numerous class.”For Marx, political economy was . . . the science of the dominant social order, and he
undertook the study of economics with the single, fixed purpose of censure and
denunciation.Marx intuited that evil before he had any
theoretical certitude about it, in fact even before he began the study of
political economy.He went from
socialism to science, not from science to socialism.His revolutionary faith preceded all
scientific demonstrations, and he did not intend, in writing Capital, to
found a new philosophy or a new economic science.What was needed was nota new interpretation of the world,
but a radical critique
that would destroy a science
that, while giving the appearance of objectivity, was actually the science of obtaining wealth by producing poverty.Marx aimed to give explanations in order to
pillory the exploitation of
labor; he aimed to destroy illusions, to tear apart the deceptive veil of an ideology that justifies the exploitation of man by man.In short, Marx’s ambition was the critique of political economy”.

Marxian theory itself was
later hijacked by Lenino-Trotskyist, Lenino-Stalinist, and Lenino-Maoist ideologues, and turned into
“Marx-ism”,
a sub-scientific and anti-scientific,
quasi-religious ideology to “justify” a new,
state bureaucratic ruling-class-imposed pathway to capitalist development for
the countries of the semi-periphery of core capitalism -- the pathway by means
of a “primitive accumulation” of industrial [state-]capital, “written in the annals of mankind in letters of blood
and fire” [Marx, CapitalI, p. 715] to even greater measure than that of
the original expropriations
of the great majority of the people upon whose ruins, and upon whose corpses,
original, core capitalism was constructed.

In our times, now, when state-bureaucracy-as-totalitarian-ruling-class state-capitalism -- heinously
misnomered as “socialism” or “communism” -- has fulfilled its “historical
mission”, of delivering its peoples back into the world market of the
capital-relation, in the form of hybrid,
private/state-capitalist re-totalitarianizing nation-states, and in which the latest world-market depression-crisis of capitalism-- still unfolding further today -- has
underscored the ultra-vicious, ‘humanocidal
socio-taxis’ of descendance-phase global capitalism, we who hold the weal of
Terran humanity at heart are urgently in need of jettisoning “Marx-ist”, crypto-religious ideology,
and of returning to -- precisely in order to resume -- Marx’s dialectical-scientific critique of
political economy, in order to secure a dialectical-scientific guidance for our
efforts to help this humanity -- including to help ourselves -- achieve
social-evolutionary, and social-revolutionary,‘‘‘escape velocity’’’ from the ‘descendant-phase capital-attractor’ of
global ‘humanocide’:of a global, final ‘‘‘New Dark Age’’’.

We are, in particular, in
urgent need of reconstructing and completing the whole of Marx’s intended critique of the
political-economics of the global capitals-system, and of furthering that
intended critique, by means of all of the human-historical experience of life
under that capitals-system, and of all of the wealth of universal labor,
accumulated since Marx’s time.

This text is created in the
spirit of contribution to that urgent human task.

b.The
Intended Content of Marx’s Full Critique of Political Economy,
Elucidated via the Seldonian «Organon».Let us apply that organon, or “instrument of
thought”, that is the
Seldonian ‘First
DialecticalAlgebra’, to the reconstruction -- step-by-step -- of astep-valued
‘dialectical-mathematical method-of-presentation meta-model’ of the contents,
and of the systematicdialectic
of the contents, of Marx’s entire
critique of political economy.

Evidently, given Marx’s plan
of that critique as repeatedly written-out by him, our «arché» for this ‘meta-model’
-- our beginning category,
or starting-point
-- must be the category named Capital itself.

Let us embed that «arché» category, Capital,
abbreviated to C, into the algorithmic context

Let us, next, then, proceed
to semantically “solve” this equation, for the meanings of the
category-descriptions generated by this ‘Dyadic’ Seldon-Function ‘meta-equation’, as
the step
value, s,
rises -- category-descriptions which are generated, initially, as
‘categorial-algebraic unknowns’.Let us transform them into
‘categorial-arithmetic’ “knowns”,
by applying to them the Seldonian ‘organonic algebraic method’ for the solution of such
‘dialectical equations’ --

Let us proceed, with this
solution-process, as we have said, step-by-step, i.e., s-value-by-successor s-value, in the
ordinal, consecutive order of these s-values.

0.Step 0.
The s = 0 ‘equation-value’
of our Critique
of Political
Economy
‘meta-equation’ is --

CPE)-|-(s=CPE)-|-(0=(CPEC)20=CPEC1=CPEC.

No new ‘category-description(s)’
to “solve for”, here, in this 0th step.

This ‘step 0’ simply affirms of
the «arché» category as «arché».

What is to be done for this step is to
‘re-mind’ ourselves of the rich, internally-differentiated content of our «arché» category, denoted C, of Capital
itself -- as ‘explicitized’ in the tables of contents of the four volumes of
Marx’s Capital.

The status of our reconstruction so far can be presented pictorially as per the depiction below --

If we depict the step s = 0 partial Table Of Contents [TOC] for the entire, ostensibly 6-Treatise Critique of Political Economy as a whole, we have --

How vast a content is already "intended" [connoted] even by just the first category, «Capital-en-général»,
can be seen by "extending" ['explicitizing'] the known connotations --
drawn up from Marx's various draft outlines of, and manuscript titles
for components of, the '"firstTreatise"', by '"union"' of their -- in-detail -- varying contents, as follows:

1.Step 1. The s = 1
‘equation-value’ of our Critique of Political Economy
‘meta-equation’ is --

CPE)-|-(s=CPE)-|-(1=(CPEC)21=CPEC2=

CPEC+CPEqCC.

The new
‘category-description’ to “solve for” here, in this 1st step of our
reconstruction of the Marxian, dialectical“method of presentation” of his the Critique
of Political
Economy,
is described, ‘categorial-algebraically’, as CPEqCC.

The standard “canons of
interpretation” of the Seldonian ‘solution-«praxis»’, for such algebraic ‘poly-qualinomial’ terms,
expect this second
category-description to represent a categorial “other” of -- a ‘‘‘dialecticalopposite’’’, or “antithesis”, to -- the first, «arché» category, CPEC.

More specifically, the
“canonical” interpretation expects that this second category-symbol might describe an «arithmos», or ‘‘‘number’’’, of ‘meta-units’
to the units
of the Capital
category, with each such ‘meta-unit’
being “made up out of”, or ‘‘‘«aufheben»-containing’’’, a [usually] heterogeneous multiplicity of
the units of
the Capital
category.

The initial concept, or
founding category, of the CPE -- namely, Capital -- is, and should
be, the simplest, the most abstract, the most “ungrounded”, of the categories to be presented in this
‘meta-model’ of a systematicdialecticalmethod of presentation
of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy.

The next category -- the second category -- of
this categorial-progression presentation, should be, as well as an “other” the
first category, also a somewhat less abstract, more concrete, somewhat more “determinate” -- more ‘‘‘grounded’’’ -- category
of the Critique
of Political
Economy.

In terms of the social
relations of production of modern, capital-centered, society, in terms of the
“property relations” central to this kind of society, capital-relations
-- individual capital units;
individual capitalist
proprietors’ individual capital-properties-- are typically subsumed
by, and‘‘‘«aufheben»-contained’’’
by, landlord properties,
by the ownership, on the part of ‘landproprietors’,
who may not also be industrial capital proprietors
in their own right, of territorial
expanses of land
which literally “ground”
-- upon which sit -- the capital-facilities of a“heterogeneous multiplicity” of individual industrial-capital property units,
whose owners pay, as a deduction from the surplus-value that they, e.g., therein,
produce, class revenues in the form of rents to the land’s owners for the privilege of so sitting.

Modern Landed Property,
within modern, ‘capital-centered society’,
e.g., the ‘‘‘Landed property-relation’’’, forming, as a word, i.e., the name of a distinct “social relation of production”, and, as a ‘socio-physical actuality’, the foundation of adistinctsocialclass, and also of a distinct social form of property, is a typical
organic element of those ‘capital-centered societies’
that emerged organically, as the ‘meta-evolutionary’, revolutionary fruition of
the internal ‘‘‘evolution’’’ of the preceding, agriculture-dominated, land-centered social formations, such as
those of European “feudalism”, where ‘‘‘modern Landed Property’’’ -- still even today -- involves the «aufheben» conservation, within modern, ‘capital-centered society’, of the earlier, landed-estate-centered, ruling class.

Modern Landed Property
, as a category, qualitatively distinct from the Capitals category, and as a categorycharacteristic of modern society, may not be so clearly -- intuitively and experientially -- familiar, e.g., for our «norte-americano» audience, i.e., in European ‘transplant societies’, such as that of the United States, in
which the predominance of the early ‘capital-relation’ruling-class, and form of property, was ‘‘‘transplanted’’’ wholesale, by
colonization, to an initially remote social terrain, previously populated only
by ‘late-arrival’, migration-originated social formations, formations no more
developed than to the stage of the predecessor to the[“feudal”]predecessor
of modern, ‘capital-centered society’, or than to even earlier social formations, in the case of North America, e.g., band, camp, village, and chiefdom formations at most. In such European ‘transplant societies’, there was no indigenous, separate “feudal” land-holder former ruling class to be «aufheben» conserved.

We therefore assert [as denoted by the sign: ‘|-.=’] our solution, for this second category-term of
our step
s = 1 equation, to be the CPE
category of modern Landed Property, CPEL --

CPEqCC|-.=CPEL;

s = 1 ==>

CPE)-|-(s=CPE)-|-(1=(CPEC)21=CPEC2=

CPEC+CPEqCC|-.=CPEC+CPEL.

Now, having heuristically --
‘intuitionally’ and ‘connotationally’ -- re-derived the second “book” of Marx’s
planned Critique
of Political
Economy,
let us see what we discover when we iterate our ‘Seldon-Function meta-equation’
again, further, this time for s = 2, and solve the
resulting equation’s new ‘category-descriptions’, using the same method we used
to “solve” the equation of step s
= 1.

The progress of our reconstruction, so far, can be presented pictorially as per the depiction pasted-in below --

2.Step 2. The s = 2
‘equation-value’ of our Critique of Political Economy
‘meta-equation’ is --

CPE)-|-(s=CPE)-|-(2=(CPEC)22=CPEC4=

(CPEC2)2=(CPEC+CPEL)2=

(CPEC+CPEL)x(CPEC+CPEL)=

CPEC+CPEL+CPEqLC+CPEqLL.

The two new
‘category-descriptions’ to “solve for”, here, in this 2nd step of our
reconstruction of the Marxian, dialectical“method of presentation” of his the Critique
of Political
Economy,
are described, ‘categorial-algebraically’, as, respectively CPEqLC,
and CPEqLL.

The standard “canons of
interpretation” of the Seldonian ‘solution-«praxis»’, for such algebraic ‘poly-qualinomial’ terms,
expect the third
category-description, here CPEqLC,
to represent a categorial“synthesis” of -- a ‘‘‘dialecticalcomplex unity’’’, or “jointproduct/result”, of
-- both
of the two preceding categories; of the first, «arché» category, CPEC,
and / with the second category, CPEL.

More specifically, that
“canonical” interpretation expects that the third category-symbol might describe an «arithmos», or ‘‘‘number’’’, of ‘hybridunits’, uniting units of the Landed Property
category, with units
of the Capital
category.

Marx clearly asserts, in
several key passages of the Grundrisse, that the reproduction of the modern Wage-Labor relation-of-production is the contemporary joint product, as well
as the historical joint-product, of the contemporary, synchronic interaction of
modern Landed Property and Modern Capital, based on seemingly difficult
arguments, as worded.

We will review those
arguments in detail a little further on.

The best quick summary of
the logic of Marx’s solution that we know of, e.g., as to the correct meaning
for the algebraic category-symbol CPEqLC,
is to say that the contemporary forcible exclusion
of the majority of the population fromaccess to land, and fromaccess
to other means of production of livelihood
as well, by the joint action of the units of Capital and of Landed Property,
as property-relations/social-relations-of-production units, and as units of a dominant/‘co-ruling
classes’ alliance, is the social force that maintains the majority of the human population within
the confines of the Wage Labor category -- e.g., in the class
status of Wage Labor [or, recently, also in that of Salaried Labor], that is, in the social relation of production / “property”-relation of [relative] property-less-ness, of the relative lackof ownership of either landed property or industrial capital property
[although the late ascendance-phase capitals-system emergence of home-ownership,
and/or of capital-stock ownership,
among upper working-class elements, has modified this characterization to a
degree, but to a degree which is also under relentless attack, especially
recently, in the current, 2007+
global depression self-crisis of the self-globalizing
capitals-system.

We may therefore assert[ ‘|-.=’ ] our solution, for this third category-term of our step s = 2
equation, to be the CPE category of modern Wage Labor,
denoted by CPEW
--

CPEqLC|-.=CPEW;

s = 2==>

CPE)-|-(s=CPE)-|-(2=(CPEC)22=CPEC4=

(CPEC2)2=(CPEC+CPEL)2=

(CPEC+CPEL)x(CPEC+CPEL)=

CPEC+CPEL+CPEqLC+CPEqLL=

CPEC+CPEL+CPEW+CPEqLL.

The standard “canons of
interpretation” of the Seldonian ‘solution-«praxis»’, for such algebraic ‘poly-qualinomial’ termsas CPEqLL,
expect this fourth
category-description to represent a

supplementary categorial“other”
of -- a second, supplementary ‘‘‘dialecticalopposite’’’, or “antithesis”, to -- the second, first“antithesis” category, resolved as CPEL, as well as constituting an “other” categorial opposite to the first, «arché» category, and also to the third, ‘uni-category’, as well as to the entire “non-amalgamative”, «asumbletoi» ‘‘‘sum’’’ / ‘cumulum’ of all three of the initialtriad of categories, taken as a whole.

More specifically, the
“canonical” interpretation expects that this fourth category-symbol might describe an «arithmos», or ‘‘‘number’’’, of ‘meta-units’
to the units
of the Landed
Property category, with each such ‘meta-unit’
being “made up out of”, or ‘‘‘«aufheben»-containing’’’, a heterogeneous multiplicity of
the units of
the Landed
Property category.

In terms of the
institutional formations of modern, capital-centered, society, in terms of the
“institutional infrastructure” essential to this kind of society, landed-property-relations -- individual landed-property units;
individual landed
proprietors’individual land-properties-- are typically subsumed
by, and‘‘‘«aufheben»-contained’’’
in / by, national state sovereign
territories, by the ultimate “ownership”, on the part of ‘nation-state’, of all of the total
sovereign territor(y)(ies), of the -- usually-contiguous -- territorial expanses that constitute modern nation-states,
whose residents pay, as a deduction from their class revenues, taxes, to support the publicbureaucracies, and the operations, of the nation-state
that ultimately ‘“owns”’ the land
that they “own”.

We may therefore assert [ ‘|-.=’ ] our
solution, for this fourth
category-term of our step
s = 2 equation, to be the CPE
category of modern nation-States,
denoted by CPES
--

CPEqLL|-.=CPES;

s = 2==>

CPE)-|-(s=CPE)-|-(2=(CPEC)22=CPEC4=

(CPEC2)2=(CPEC+CPEL)2=

(CPEC+CPEL)x(CPEC+CPEL)=

CPEC+CPEL+CPEW+CPEqLL=

CPEC+CPEL+CPEW+CPES.

This synchronic, systematic, method-of-presentationdialectic thus
exhibits a developing interplay, a continuing and mounting counterpoint,
between more abstract,
‘‘‘value-form[ation]’’’, or ‘‘‘social-relation-of-production’’’, “social
formation” categories,
and more ‘“grounded”’
-- more concrete, more tangible, more visible and more sensuous -- ‘‘‘spatial’’’,
geographical, ‘territorial-form[ation]’ “social formation” categories.

The progress of our reconstruction, so far, can be presented pictorially as per the depiction pasted-in below --

Note:
In the diagrams for this blog-entry, we are using the ‘Marxian
convention’, in which the upward vertical direction of display
represents the direction of increasing ‘thought-concreteness’,
complexity, or determinateness [‘determinations-rich-ness’].

This convention is an inversion
of the convention associated with philosophical idealism -- Platonian,
Aristotelian, Porphyrian, etc. -- for which the upward vertical
direction of display is the direction of increasing generality,
abstractness, and simplicity, or ‘determinations-depletion’, and also a
convention that we of F.E.D. have often adopted in our diagrams, e.g., when illustrating the paradigm of ‘systematic, synchronic, ‘trans-Platonian «arithmoi eidetikoi» dialectic’.

Marx
described this -- what we term -- ‘Marxian convention’ in the
following, crucial, methodological passage from his “Introduction to the
Critique of Political Economy”, near the beginning of his «Grundrisse» [‘“Foundation”’] manuscript --

“The economists of the seventeenth century, e.g., always begin [M.D.: e.g., always began their method of discovery] with theliving whole, with population, nation, state, severalstates, etc.; but they always conclude [M.D.: Ee.g., conclude their method of discovery] by discovering through analysis a small number of [M.D.: determinations -- ] determinant, abstract, general relations such as division of labour, money, value, etc.”

“As soon as these individualmoments had been more or less firmly established and abstracted, there began [M.D.: the systematicmethod of presentation of] the economic systems, which ASCENDED from the simple [M.D.: abstract] relations, such as labour, division of labour, need, exchange value, to the level of the state, exchange betweennation[M.D.: -state]s and the world market.”

“Thelatterisobviously thescientificallycorrectmethod.”

“The [M.D.: thought-]concrete is concrete [as and for thought -- M.D.] because it is a concentration of many determinations, hence unity of the diverse.”

“It appears in the process of thinking, therefore, as a process of concentration [E.g., as a process of ‘cumul-ation’, and of ‘multi-quality sum-ation’, or of ‘qualitative superposition’ of determinations -- M.D.], as a result, not as a point of departure, even though it is the point of departure in reality, and hence also the point of departure for observation and conception.”

“Along the first path [M.D.:
the path of the Marxian-dialecticalmethod of discovery]
the full conception
was evaporated
to yield an abstract
determination [M.D.: an abstract determination
that then becomes the «arché»,
the point of departure,
for Marx's “second path”,
i.e., for the Marxian-dialecticalmethod of presentation];
along the second [path, the path of the Marxian systematic-dialectical method
of presentation -- M.D.],
the abstract determinations
lead towards the reproduction of the [M.D.:
real, i.e., of that which is experienced as external
to human thought] concrete
by way of thought.”

“In this way Hegel fell into the illusion of
conceiving the realas the
product of thought concentrating itself, probing its own depths, and unfolding itself out of itself, by itself, whereas THE METHOD OF RISING FROM THE ABSTRACT
TO THE CONCRETE, reproduces it as concretein
the mind [M.D.: and for the
mind, as the ‘thought-concrete’, as distinct from
the ‘‘‘real-concrete’’’].”

“But this is by no means the process by
which the [M.D.: real-]concreteitself
comes into being.”

“Thus in this respect it may be said that
the simplercategory can express the dominant relations of
a less developed whole, or else those subordinate relations of a more developed
whole which already had a historic existence before this whole developed in a
direction expressed by a moreconcretecategory.”

“To that extent the path of abstract
thought, RISING
FROM THE simpleTO THE COMBINED, would
correspond to the real historical process.”

“. . . Bourgeois society is the mostdeveloped and the mostcomplex historic organization of production.”

“The categories which express its [M.D.:social-]relations[-of-production -- M.D.], the comprehension of its structure,
thereby also allow insights into the structure and the relationsofproduction
of all the vanished social formations out of whose ruins and elements it built
itself up, whose partly unconquered remnants are carried along with it, whose
mere nuances have developed explicit significance within it, etc.”

“. . . For example, nothing seems more
natural than to begin
with ground rent, with landedproperty,
since this is bound up with the earth, the source of all production and of all being, and
with the first
form of production of all more or less settled societies -- agriculture.”

“Butnothing could be more erroneous.”

“. . . Capital is the all-dominating economic power
of bourgeoissociety.”

“It must form the starting-point as well as the finishing-point,
and must be dealt with before landedproperty.”

“After both have been examined in particular [M.D.:i.e., separately],
their interrelation
must be examined.”

“It would therefore be unfeasible and wrong
to let the economic categories
follow one another in the same sequence as that in which they
were historically
decisive.”

“Their sequence is determined, rather, by
their relation to one another in [M.D.:contemporary, synchronic, ]modern bourgeois society [i.e., to what we term their taxonomic or ‘‘‘systematic
order’’’, as opposed to their historical, chronological order of first
appearance -- M.D.], which is precisely the opposite of that which
seems to be their natural order or which corresponds to historical [M.D.: I.e., topast, diachronic, ]development.”

“The point is not the historic position of the
economic relations[-of-production -- M.D.] in the succession of different forms
of society.”

“Even less is it their sequence ‘in the
idea’ (Proudhon) (a muddy notion of historic movement).”

“Rather, their [taxonomic
or ‘‘‘systematic order’’’ -- M.D.] order within [M.D.:synchronic] modern bourgeois society.”

Before moving on to our nextstep, step s = 3,
let us pause to consider, in more detail, Marx’s arguments regarding just the
first triad
of the tetrad
of this step
s = 2 ‘poly-qualinomial’ model of Marx’s full Critique
of Political
Economy
synchronic-dialecticalmethod of presentation
--

CPEC+CPEL+CPEW

-- or --

Capital&Landed
Property&Wage Labor.

Marx
wrote, in 1858, to Engels:“I
am, by the way, discovering some nice arguments. E.g. I have completely
demolished the theory of profit as hitherto propounded.”

“What was of great use to me as regards method of treatment
was Hegel’s Logic at which I had taken another look by mere accident,
Freiligrath having found and made me a present of several volumes of Hegel,
originally the property of Bakunin.”

“If
ever the time comes when such work is again possible, I should very much like
to write 2 or 3 sheets making accessible to the common reader the rational
aspect of the method which Hegel not only discovered but also mystified.” [Marx
to Engels, 16 January 1858, emphasis added].

Marx
wrote again, ten years later,
in 1868, that he wished to write a book on dialectics, stating that --

“the true laws of dialectics are to be found already in
Hegel, in a mystic form, however.”

“The
problem is to divest them of this form.”
[Marx to Dietzgen, 09 May 1868].

Marx
wrote, yet again, in 1875, seven years later,
and eight years before his death in 1883, that
once he had finished with his “Economics”, he intended to write on the subject of dialectics [Marx
to Dietzgen, Dec. 1875, see also Joseph Dietzgen to Marx,
16
January 1876,
conserved in the Archives of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam [DII, 23], but missing from the International
Publishers 1991 edition of the Collected Works of Marx and
Engels, volume 45, covering 1874-1879, as is all of the Marx-Dietzgen correspondence.Joseph Dietzgen is not even listed in this
volume’s Name Index].

In the event, Marx did not live to write his “Dialectics”.

Not unexpectedly, given that
fact, we have noknown -- extant -- detailedaccounts by Marx of how he applied
his correction of Hegel’s dialectic
to the construction of the volumes Capital, to their method of presentation, although we do, of course, have
several general statements by Marx, in texts published by him, and in his
letters, as well as in posthumously published writings, attesting to Marx’s use
of a “materialist dialectical method” in the presentation of that work.

Indeed, triadic+ dialectical
‘content-structures’ abound in it, as we have shown, and as summarized in the
images linked-to below.

Perhaps the classic statement, published by Marx, of his use
of his dialectical method ofpresentation in the
construction of «Das Kapital» [as well as, implicitly, of his
dialectical method ofinquiry] is the following, from Marx’s January 1873 Afterword to the
Second German Edition of Capital, volume I --

“That the method employed in “Das Kapital” has been
little understood, is shown by the various conceptions, contradictory to one
another, that have been formed of it.”

“. . . German reviews, of course, shriek out at “Hegelian
sophistics.”

“The EuropeanMessenger of St. Petersburg in
an article dealing exclusively with the method of “Das Kapital” ... finds my
method of inquiry severely realistic, but my method of presentation,
unfortunately, German-dialectical.”

“It says:At first
sight, if judgment is based on the external form of the presentation of the
subject, Marx is the most ideal of ideal philosophers, always in the German, i.e.,
the bad sense of the word.But in point
of fact he is infinitely more realistic than all of his fore-runners in the
work of economic criticism.He can in no
sense be called an idealist.”

“. . . Of course the method of presentation must differ in
form from that of inquiry.The latter
has to appropriate the material in detail, to analyze its different forms of
development, to trace out their inner connexion.Only after this work is done, can the actual
movement be adequately described.If
this is done successfully, if the life of the subject-matter is ideally
reflected as in a mirror, then it may appear as if we had before us a mere apriori construction.”

“My dialectic method is not only different from the
Hegelian, but is its direct opposite.”

To Hegel, the life-process of the human brain, i.e.,
the process of thinking, which, under the name of “the Idea,” he even
transforms into an independent subject, is the demiurgos of the real world, and
the real world is only the external, phenomenal form of “the Idea”.”

“With me, on the contrary, the ideal is nothing else than
the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of
thought,”

“The mystifying side of Hegelian dialectic I criticised
nearly thirty years ago, at a time when it was still the fashion.But just as I was working at the first volume
of “Das Kapital”, it was the good pleasure of the peevish, arrogant, mediocre «Epigonoi» who now talk large in cultured
Germany, to treat Hegel in the same way as the brave Moses Mendelssohn treated
Spinoza, i.e., as a “dead dog.”

“I therefore openly avowed myself the pupil of that mighty
thinker, and even here and there, in the chapter on the theory of value,
coquetted with the modes of expression peculiar to him.”

“The mystification which dialectic suffers in Hegel’s hands,
by no means prevents him from being the first to present its general form of
working in a comprehensive and conscious manner.”

“With him it is standing on its head.”

“It must be turned right side up again, if you would
discover the rational kernel within the mystical shell.”

There are powerful polemics in the affirmation of Marxian dialectics, above,
but scarce little detail about the actual ‘‘‘algorithm’’’, as it were, of
Marx’s dialectical method ofpresentation.

Marx’s whole discussion in this passage -- most of which we
have omitted in the extract above -- accrues more to a description of what we
and others call his paradigm of ‘‘‘historicaldialectic’’’,
or ‘diachronicdialectic’, than it
does to what we call ‘systematicdialectic’,
or ‘synchronicdialectic’ -- Marx’s dialectical method ofpresentation, as a species of the «genos» that Seldon terms ‘the dialectic of the dialectic
itself’ --

However, regarding the
Marx’s planned, 6-category dialectical
method ofpresentation
for his planned critique of political
economy as a whole, of which Capital forms
but the 1st
category, we have, for a change, considerable discourse regarding its dialecticalconstruction, both in
Marx’s correspondence, and in drafts of his critique of political economy, published posthumously --
especially in the «Grundrisse» manuscripts.

Alas, much of Marx’s
explicit commentary on the dialectical ‘content-structure’ of that overall plan
concerns more its historical, diachronic resonances than its synchronic, systematic
ordering and interconnexion, and, indeed, makes a distinction of “historical” versus “[‘‘‘systematic’’’] dialectical”,
rather than of ‘‘‘historical-dialectical’’’ versus ‘‘‘systematic- dialectical’’’.

Note:This ‘counter-positioning’ of “dialectical” to “historical” -- the
latter as, implicitly, ‘undialectical’
-- does not persist
in Marx’s later published writings within his critique of political economy, either in the passages
already considered in this blog-entry, above, or in, for example, the decisive passages
of Capital, volume I, and volume III, in which the transition from the
capitals-system to what we call ‘political-economic democracy’ is summarily
described [e.g., in volume I, CHAPTERXXXII., entitled “Historical Tendency
of Capitalist Accumulation”, in which, e.g., the dialectical terminology
of “thenegationofthenegation”
is applied historically, diachronically, and, in volume III, CHAPTER XXVII,
entitled “The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production”, according to which,
e.g., the “acceleration”, by the capitalist “credit system”, of the “material
development of the productive forces”, and of “the establishment of the
world-market”, and hence also of the “violent eruptions” -- “crises” -- that
manifest the “immanent” “contradiction” of the capitals-system / “world-market”,
portends the historical
«aufheben» [in
the English translation, “abolition”]
of the system of capital].

Below are selections from
some key samples of Marx’s account of the ‘dialecticality’ of his ‘Capital----)Landed Property----)WageLabour’,
apparently ‘convolute’, categorial progression.

Marx’s first recorded
account of his plan for the presentation of his critique of political economy entire was rendered in a
letter, not to
Frederick Engels, but to Ferdinand Lassalle, who Marx hoped would help him to find
a publisher in Berlin --

“The work I am
presently concerned with is a Critique of Economic Categories or, if you
like, a critical exposé of the system of bourgeois economy.”

“It is at once an exposé and,
by the same token, a critique of the system.”

“I have very little idea how
many sheets the whole thing will amount to. ...”

“The presentation -- the
manner of it, I mean -- is entirely scientific, hence unobjectionable to the
police in the ordinary sense.”

“The whole is divided into 6
books.”

“1. On Capital (contains a
few introductory chapters).2. On Landed
Property.3. On Wage Labour.4. On the State.5. International Trade.6. World Market.”

“I cannot, of course, avoid
all critical consideration of other economists, in particular a polemic against
Ricardo in as much as he, qua bourgeois, cannot but commit blunders even
from a strictly economic viewpoint.”

“But generally speaking the
critique and history of political economy and socialism would form the subject
of another work, and, finally, the short historical outline of the
development of economic categories and relations yet a third.”

1. Capital falls into 4
sections.a) Capital engénéral.
(This is the substance of the first instalment.)b) Competition, or the interaction of
many capitals.c) Credit, where
capital, as against individual capitals, is shown to be a universal
element.d) Sharecapital
as the most perfected form (turning into communism) together with all its
contradictions.”

“The transition from capital
to landed property in its modern form is a product of the action of capital on
feudal, etc., landed property.”

“In the same way, the
transition of landed property to wage labour is not only dialectical but
historical, since the last product of modern landed property is the general
introduction of wage labour, which then appears as the basis of the whole
business.”

[Marx to Engels, 02 April 1858, Collected Works, volume 40, p. 298].

The above account was so
sparing that even the ultimate insider to Marx’s thought, i.e., Engels, did not see immediately from it the ‘dialecticality’
of the final
transition of that firstdialecticaltriad,
namely, of ‘Landed Property----)WageLabour’
--

“The arrangement of
the whole into 6 books could hardly be better, and seems to me an excellent
idea, although the dialectical transition from landed property to wage labour
is not yet clear to me.”

[Engels
to Marx, 09 April 1858, Collected Works, volume 40, p. 304].

Engels’s unclarity on
especially the ‘Landed Property----)WageLabour’
transition is understandable:we know of
no documentary evidence suggesting that Engels was ever privy to Marx’s massive
manuscripts written “for self-clarification” during Marx’s lifetime, although
Engels did inherit all or most of those manuscripts after Marx’s death.

The «Grundrisse»
manuscripts, in particular, contain rare reflections, by Marx, on the
dialectical structure of his plan and method of exposition of his entire
critique of political economy.

Let us
therefore turn now to the consideration of the primary passages, from the «Grundrisse»
notebooks, that bear on the [‘evolute’,
not ‘convolute’]
progression --

Capital----)

Capital+Landed
Property----)

Capital+Landed Property+Wage Labor

-- ‘‘‘systematic / synchronic dialectic’’’ that we
have modeled so far.

In his «Grundrisse»
notes, Marx sometimes seems to be suggesting that the Wage-Laborcategory [in
our lingo, the firstsynthesis category], emanates from the Landed Propertycategory [in
our lingo, the firstantithesiscategory] alone, without any ‘co-involvement’ of the Capitalcategory [in
our lingo, the «arché»
thesis category
of Marx’s entire critique].

First, as background, before
we explore those accounts of the origin of the referents of
Marx’s Wage-Laborcategory, let
us consider the following passage, regarding the origin of the referents of his category of modern Landed
Propertyitself.

About the conversion, by the referents of his «arché» category, Capital,
of pre-Capital
forms, e.g., feudal forms, of landed property, Marx writes as follows --

“...capital, not only
as something which produces
itself (positing prices materially in industry etc., developing
forces of production), but at the same time as a creator of values, has to
posit a value or some form of wealth specifically distinct from capital [M.D.:¿the necessity of an ‘‘‘antithesis’’’?].This is ground rent.This is the only value created by capital
which is distinct from itself, from its own production.”

“By its nature [M.D.:i.e., therefore also self-reproductively
and synchronically] as
well as historically,
capital is the creator
of modern landed property,
of ground rent; just
as its action therefore appears also as the dissolution of the old form of
property in land.The new arises through the action
of capital upon the
old.”

[M.D.:Here Marx discusses the
history that came before the present, and that still exists, implicitly, in the
present, ‘‘‘behind’’’ or ‘‘‘within’’’, his «arché» thesis category, Capital, which is the correct «arché» for a contemporary, synchronic, systematic account of the present state of
self-reproduction of an ongoing capitalist society, but which is obviously not the «arché» from the vantage
points of human history,
as a whole, and of its diachronic, historical dialectic.Thus, there existed a pre-capitalist form of
the landed property social-relation-of-production, available for the emergent
capital social-relation-of-production to operate upon, and to convert into a
new-social-relation-of-production -- a new ‘social ontology’ -- compatible with
the self-reproduction of the capital-relation.This involves the past-present-future, or
‘reconstruction-presentation-preconstruction [prediction]’, methodological
format, that Marx describes later in this same manuscript [op. cit.,
pp. 460-461],
as follows: “... our
method indicates the points where historical investigation must enter in, or where bourgeois
economy as a merely historical form of the production process points beyond
itself to earlier historical modes of production.In order to develop the laws of bourgeois
economy, it is not necessary to write the real history of the relations of production.But correct observation and deduction of
these laws, as having themselves become in history, always leads to primary equations --
like the empirical numbers, e.g. in natural science -- which point towards a past lying behind this system.These indications [Andeutung],
together with a correct grasp of the present, then also offer the key to the
understanding of the past
-- a work in its own right which, it is to be hoped, we shall be able to
undertake as well [M.D.:Alas!].This correct view likewise leads at the same
time to points at which the suspension
[M.D.:i.e., the [self-]«aufheben»]
of the present
form of production relations gives signs of its becoming -- foreshadowings of the future.Just as, on one side, the pre-bourgeois
phases appear as merely historical,
i.e., suspended [M.D.:i.e., as already [self-]«aufheben»-ed]
presuppositions, so do the contemporary
conditions of production likewise appear as engaged in suspending themselves [M.D.:i.e., as presentlyengaged in perhaps onlythe earliest stages of their own self-«aufheben» process] and hence in positing historic presuppositions
for a new state of society.”].

“Capital is thi[u--M.D.]s
-- in one regard -- the creator of modern agriculture.”

[op. cit., pp. 275-276].

The following passage might
be read as suggesting that the actualities referred to by Marx’s Wage-Laborcategory were
produced solely by the
action of the actualities referred to by his Landed Propertycategory, without any
contribution from the actualities referenced by his Capitalcategory,
except by inheritance -- i.e., in a ‘meta-genealogical’ sense -- within and
through the referents of his Landed Propertycategory --

“There can therefore be no doubt that wage
labour in its classic form, as something permeating the entire
expanse of society, which has replaced the very earth as the ground on which
society stands, is initially created only
by modern landed property i.e. by landed property as a value created by capital
itself.”

“This is why landed property
leads back to wage labour.”

[M.D.:Marx may also be alluding, in this whole
passage, to the ‘dialecticalcircle’ of the systematic dialectic of a self-reproducing,
synchronic, system, a la
Hegel’s ‘ideo-system’ --

«Logik»----) «Natur»----) «Spirit»----) «Logik» ----) . . .

--
in which each category leads from itself to its next category, and in which the
“last”category of a ‘dialecticaltriad’ of categories also
leads back to the first].

“In one regard, it is
nothing more than the extension of wage labour, from the cities to the countryside,
i.e. wage labour distributed over the entire surface of society [M.D.:this
sentence reflects the ‘territorial’ connotations of the characteristic phrase
“surface of society”, occurring also in his later works, e.g., in Capital,
volumeIII].”

“The ancient proprietor of
land, if he is rich, needs no capitalist in order to become the modern
proprietor of land.He needs only to
transform his workers into wage workers and to produce for profit instead of
for revenue.Then the modern farmer and
the modern landowner are presupposed in his person.”

[M.D.:This -- though but a ‘‘‘thought-experiment’’’,
and implying a ‘‘‘counter-factual conditional’’’ at that, in the form of an
implied conditional sentence:“If
agricultural wage workers exist, then modern landed property will exist, even
without the existence of modern industrial capital.”, to the extent that there
is no known case of sustained spontaneous transformation of landed proprietors
into wage worker
employers, e.g., as opposed to into ‘‘‘latifundial’’’slave-worker employers, apart from
the ‘co-influence’ of capital -- might be read as suggesting that ancient
landed property could have produced modern wage labour, together with
transforming itself into the modern form of itself, apart from the ‘co-development’
of industrial capital, thus positing an exclusive
--

‘Landed
Property----)WageLabour’

--
transition, as opposed to a co-caused
co-transition
--

‘Landed
Property----)WageLabour’ (----Capital, i.e., asW= qLC].

“This change in the form in
which he obtains his revenue or in the form in which the worker is paid is not,
however, a formal distinction, but presupposes a total restructuring of the
mode of production (agriculture) itself; it therefore presupposes
conditions which rest on a certain development of industry, of trade, and of
science, in short of the forces of production.”

[M.D.:This latter sentence may be
read as a refutation of the -- only apparent -- suggestion of the preceding two
sentences, therefore now again upholding the hypothesis that the transition to
modern landed property and to wage labor both presuppose the emergence of
capital-based production.].

“Just as, in general,
production resting on capital and wage labour differs from other modes of
production not merely formally, but equally presupposes a total revolution and
development of material production.”

“Although capital can
develop itself completely as commercial capital (only not as much
quantitatively), without this transformation of landed property, it cannot do
so as industrial capital.”

“Even the development of
manufactures presupposes the beginning of a dissolution of the old economic
relations of landed property.”

“On the other hand, only
with the development of modern industry to a degree does this dissolution at
individual points acquire its totality and extent; but this development itself
proceeds more rapidly to the degree that modern agriculture and the form of [M.D.: landed] property, the economic relations
corresponding to it [M.D.:i.e., to modern landed property],
have developed.”

“Thus England in this
respect [is -- M.D.] the model country for
the other continental countries.”

[M.D.:and the countries colonized
when their colonizing countries had already attained to the level of some capitalist
development, so that the colonization was also a transplantation of capitalist
politico-economic relations to a not only pre-capitalist, but also pre-feudal
social terrain, are even more anomalous with respect to that England
“model”.The social histories of these
“settler nations” -- e.g., of Australia, of the United States of America -- were
thus deflected, from the “model” path, by the outlet of unclaimed potential
landed property in their hinterlands -- occupied only by pre-feudal, pre-landed-property
indigenous social formations -- enabling those hinterlands to be continually
settled, for a period, by proto-proletarian settlers, escaping their otherwise
proletarian fate by converting to “yeoman” farmers -- to small landed
proprietors in their own right.].

“Likewise:if the first form of industry, large-scale
manufacture, already presupposes dissolution of [M.D.:pre-capitalist forms of] landed
property, then the latter is in turn conditioned by the subordinate development
of capital in its primitive (medieval) forms which has taken place in the
cities, and at the same time by the flowering of manufacture and trade in other
countries (thus the influence of Holland on England in the sixteenth and the
first half of the seventeenth century).”

“These countries themselves
had already undergone the process [M.D.:i.e., the process of the dissolution of
pre-capitalist forms of landed property, and of the formation of at least
‘proto-modern’ forms of landed property], agriculture had been sacrificed
to cattle-raising, and grain was obtained from countries which were left
behind, such as Poland, etc., by import (Holland again).”

[op. cit., pp. 277-278].

Elsewhere, but still in
contiguous passages of his «Grundrisse» notes, Marx describes
something that reads much more like an account of the ‘co-production’ of the
content referred to by the Wage-Laborcategory [the firstsynthesis category], by both that referred to by the Landed Propertycategory [the
firstantithesiscategory], and that referred to by the Capital
category [the «arché»
thesis category
of Marx’s entire critique].

To wit --

“The inner structure of
modern society, or, capital in the totality of its relations, is therefore
posited in the economic relations of modern landed property, which appears as a
process:ground rent-capital-wage labour (the form of the circle can also
be put another way:as wage labour-capital-ground
rent; but capital must always appear as the active middle).”

[M.D. -- in the sentence above, moderncapital appears as the “active middle”
mediator for the existence of both modern landed property and modern wage labor.].

“The question is now, how
does the transition from landed property to wage labour come about.”

“(The transition from wage
labour to capital arises by itself, since the latter is here brought back into
its active foundation.).”

[M.D.:Marx’s term, “transition”,
here, and in similar passages, should not necessarily be assumed to mean an
historical-temporal transition, but may also mean a presentational,
conceptual, or [dialectical-]logical -- [dialectical-]analytical -- transition, somewhat a la
those of Hegel’s «Logik», but stripped of idealistic
fetishism and mystification.].

“Historically, this
transition is beyond dispute.”[M.D.:but,
sometimes, the historical sense of “transition” alone is meant by Marx, and,
other times, the two meanings are parallel, and Marx uses the single term
“transition” for both meanings at once.].

“It is already given in the
fact that landed property is the product of capital.”

“We therefore always find
that, wherever [M.D.:the ‘‘‘pre-modern’’’ form of] landed property is transformed intomoney rent through the
reaction of capital
on the older forms of landed property (the same thing takes
place in another way where the modern farmer is created) and where, therefore, at the same time agriculture, driven by capital,
transforms itself into industrial agronomy, there the cottiers, serfs,
bondsmen, tenants for life, cottagers, etc. become day labourers, wage labourers, i.e.
that wage labourin its totality is
initially created by the action of capital
on landed property,
and then, as soon as the latter has been produced as a form, by the proprietor
of the land himself.”

[M.D.:This is one of Marx’s clearer
statements of the ‘co-ingredience’
and ‘co-involvement’
of capital,
as well as of modernlanded property,
in the formation of modern wage labor.].

“This latter then ‘clears’,
as Steuart says, the land of its excess mouths, tears the children of the earth
from the breast on which they were raised, and thus transforms labour on the
soil itself, which appears by its nature as the direct wellspring of
subsistence, into a mediated source of subsistence, a source purely dependent
on social relations.”

[M.D.:This process, of “clearing”
-- i.e., of, not
“ethnic cleansing, but of ‘classcleansing’
-- of the countryside, also forms part of the process of the “original
accumulation”, or “primitive accumulation”, of capital, whose horrors Marx so
vividly re-vivifies and re-envisages in Part VIII of Capital,
vol.I.].

[op. cit., p. 276].

In the following passage,
Marx describes the partially corroboratory historical experiences, regarding
his ‘‘‘wage labour requires landed property’’’ hypothesis, produced by the kind
of unintentional, semi-controlled political-economic experiments that arose
from those modern colonizations which were ‘transplantational’ of the “capital-relation”
onto lands remote from the capitalist system’s geographical core -- onto social
terrains which still lacked modernLanded
Property land tenure systems:

“It must be kept in
mind that the new forces of production and relations of production do not develop out of nothing,
nor drop from the sky, nor from the womb of the self-positing Idea [M.D.:this latter
clause being a jab at Hegel’s -- and even at Plato’s -- mystifications; at
their fetishism, reification, and hypostatization of “ideas”, into imagined
‘pseudo-subjects’ [cf. Seldon], inverting the actual relation of ideas to the
real subjects, the human subjects, the human agents, whom they thus portray,
implicitly, as mere ‘pseudo-objects’ [again, cf. Seldon]]; but from
within and in antithesis to the existing development
of production and the inherited, traditional relations of property.”

[M.D.:What Marx is upholding in
this passage is his historic realization that human social development is, at
core, a self-development,
propelled by «causa sui»,
or «causa immanens»,
that is, that its new ‘socio-ontology’ emerges immanently, out of itself, by
human action, human «praxis»,
and by the self-induced mutation of that «praxis,
by “self-change”, or by ‘self-revolution’ -- by the ‘self-iterated
self-recursion’ of the ‘self-«aufheben»’ operations, and of the ‘other-«aufheben» operations, of negation /elevation /conservation,
recurrently applied to prior, already-emerged, already-existent human
‘socio-ontology’.

Accordingly,
per the Seldonian ‘psychohistorical-dialectical meta-equation meta-model of
human social relations of production meta-evolution’, «Kapital» itself first arises as the
productive-forces-growth-induced ‘self-«aufheben»’ ‘self-meta-monadization’
self-conversion of the pre-existing, pre-«Kapital» Money-relation,
of the ‘Money social-relation-of-production ontology’, i.e., the Mconversion of M itself, denoted by qMM= K, and the forms of landed property, agriculture, and
mining [i.e., of “extractive industry”] subsumed by «Kapital», and adapted to «Kapital», arise as the K conversion of A, of Raw Appropriation of extra-human Nature, A, denoted by qKA, and as the K conversion of G, i.e., the conversion of Nature as already improved,
for human use, by past human labor, denoted by qKG, etc.

Likewise,
the form of Commodities
subsumed by «Kapital», and adequate to «Kapital», i.e., “Commodity-capitals”, arise as qKC, and the form of Monies subsumed by «Kapital», and adequate to «Kapital», i.e., “Money-capitals”, arise as qKM, and the form of the ‘Monies-mediated Circulations of Commodities process’ subsumed by «Kapital», and adequate for the Circulation and Reproduction of
the Total Social «Kapital», arises as qKMC, etc.

For
more about this ‘dialecticalmeta-model’ of that psychohistoricaldialectic, see pages 20-21 in the document linked-to by the following link: autobiography].

“While in the completed
bourgeois system every economic relation presupposes every other in the
bourgeois economic form, and everything posited is thus also a presupposition,
this is the case in every organic system.”

[M.D.:This
‘inter-presuppositionality’ that is a key characteristic of “organic systems”,
of ‘organic sub-totalities’, per Marx, so that, in the case of a human, social
system, every social relation of production rests upon, and is grounded by,
every other, with no relation being absolutely fundamental in terms of its
interconnexions to the others, represents the observed, partial, limited, ‘self-transitory
totalization’, the self-reproductive robustness, and resilience, of that
‘‘‘sub-totality’’’.

In
the case of the capital-centered human-social system, it represents the “completed
system”, or, actually, the mature, “zenith” state, completing the ascendant
phase of that social system, which is the cross-section, or “time-slice”, of
that system which is most appropriate for a ‘synchronic-dialectical’, ‘‘‘systematic-dialectical’’’method-of-presentation
of that system, like that of Marx’s critique
of political economy, here in its planning stages -- in its
“draft” stages.This ‘anti-historical’, explicitly synchronicview of this ‘system-totality’ in its present,
mature, zenith state of self-reproduction, momentaneously eclipses, and drives
into implicitude, the past-diachronic view of the history of its becoming,
and the future-diachronic
view of its next, lawful, predicted, expectedself-«aufheben» self-revolutionary self-transformation, but does not extinguish that historical view.].

“This organic system itself,
as a totality, has its presuppositions, and its development to its totality
consists precisely in subordinating all elements of society to itself [M.D.:e.g., the
‘subordinations to K’
that are denoted by qKA, qKG, qKC, qKM, qKMC, etc., in the Seldonian ‘meta-model’], or in
creating out of it the organs which it still lacks [M.D.:Again, the creations, by K, out of past social-relations-ontology, that are
denoted by each of, e.g., qKA, qKG, qKC, qKM, qKMC, etc., in the Seldonian ‘meta-model’].”

“This is historically how it
becomes a totality.”

[M.D.:Therefore also, the
capitalist-system, in the Seldonian ‘meta-model’, is not denoted by qMM= qK= K, which represents only the “antediluvian” forms of
capital -- usurers’ capital, merchants’ capital, and, e.g., ancient, or
pre-Civil-War American, and slave-labor-based
agricultural productive capital.The
capitals-system is represented, on the contrary, only by the entire ‘qualitative
superposition’, by the entire categorial ‘cumulum’ --

qK+ qKA+ qKG+ qKGA+ qKC+ qKCA+ qKCG+ qKCGA+ qKM+ qKMA+ qKMG+

qKMGA+ qKMC+ qKMCA+qKMCG+ qKMCGA.].

“The process of becoming
this totality forms a moment of its process, of its development.”

“- On the other hand, if
within one society the modern relations of production, i.e. capital, are
developed to its totality, and this society then seizes hold of a new
territory, as e.g. the colonies, then it finds, or rather its representative,
the capitalist, finds, that his capital ceases to be capital without wage
labour, and that one of the presuppositions of the latter is not only landed
property in general, but modern landed property; landed property which, as
capitalized rent, is expensive, and which, as such, excludes the direct use of the soil
by individuals [M.D.:e.g., by “should-be” wage-workers/proletarians,
seeking to escape from confinement in that, imprisoned, class, by refuge in a
new yeoman class].”

“Hence Wakefield’s theory of
colonies, followed in practice by the English government in Australia.”

“Landed property is here
artificially made more expensive in order to transform the workers into wage
workers, to make capital act as capital, and thus to make the new colony productive;
to develop wealth in it, instead of using it, as in [M.D.:«Norte»] America, for the
momentary deliverance of wage labourers.”

[M.D.:This temporary
‘‘‘escape-valve’’’, for proletarians, to small proprietorship in farmable land
as means of production of their livelihood, has therefore exercised a profound
influence in deflecting the history of the United States of America part of
Terran global capitalist society, temporarily, away from the trajectory that
forms the generic norm of the Marxian model of “the economic law of motion of
modern society”.].

“Wakefield’s theory is
infinitely important for a correct understanding of modern landed property.”

[op. cit., p. 278].

The following passage is
perhaps the clearest of all Marx’s writings regarding the hybrid nature of modernWage Labor
-- i.e., regarding the ‘co-involvement’
of both Capital
and modernLanded Property
in the [creation of the] determination named ‘‘‘modernWage Labor’’’ --

“Capital, when it
creates landed property, therefore goes back to the production of wage labour
as its general creative basis.”

“Capital arises out of
circulation [M.D.:e.g., as merchants’ capital] and
posits labour as wage labour; takes form in this way; and, developed as a
whole, it posits landed property as its precondition as well as its opposite.”

“It turns out, however, that
it has thereby only created wage labour as its general presupposition.”

“On the other hand, modern
landed property itself appears most powerfully in the process of clearing the
estates and the transformation of the rural labourers into wage labourers.”

Based upon the totality of
the evidence of Marx’s discourses, presented above, we hold to our hypothesis
that, for the systematicdialectic
of the first
of Marx’s two,
overall triads
for his planned presentation
of his critique of political economy
entire, CPEqLC= CPEW,
i.e., that the reproduction of the human agent referents of Marx’s Wage-Labourcategory are the
continuing [as well as the historical] joint results of the interaction of the self-reproductive
actions of the human agent referents of his Landed Propertycategory, and of
his Capitalcategory.

Nevertheless, it might be
useful for the interested reader to explore the efficacy of a model such as --

CPE)-|-(s=CPE)-|-(2=(CPEC)22=CPEC4=

CPEC+CPEL+CPEqLC+CPEqLL

-- i.e., a model in which CPEqLC~> & ~= & ~<CPEW,
and in which CPEW
is the product of CPEL
-- as CPEqLL -- alone:CPEqLL= CPEW.

Of course, none of Marx’s
remarks, quoted above, can be considered definitive, as it must always be kept in mind, about
them, that they were never prepared for publication by Marx.

They represent rather his
roughest drafts toward consolidating -- and toward formulating in an integral,
unified way --the conclusions of his
long, wide, and deep study in the literature, and in the observable actuality,
of “political economy”, up to the time when they were written.

The «Grundrisse»
notebooks, in particular, should be seen as a textual laboratory, constructed
by Marx for the conduct of his thought-experiments, toward that unified
critique, theory, and presentation of modern political economy which was his
central goal in them.

These “unedited”
manuscripts, while they do not supply us with Marx’s finished, final views, do,
however, provide, for us, a rare window into the raw material reaches of Marx’s
thought-processes regarding the topics of this blog-entry.

Note also that we have found
no textual evidence that the ‘meta-monadicity’
of “Landed Property”, in relation to “Capital”, or
that the ‘meta-monadicity’
of“The [nation-]State”, in relation to
“Landed Property”, figured explicitly
in Marx’s considerations regarding the presentational dialectic of these categories.

However, we do hold that the
“connotations” or “intensions” of ‘‘‘territoriality’’’, that are the key to both of these
‘meta-monadicities’, are universally present-to-mind, when cognizing the
categories “Landed Property” and “The
State”, for humans who partook in the human Phenome of Marx’s time, as for
those who partake in that of our own, and that these connotations may have
contributed to the -- seemingly unwarranted -- sense of obviousness which Marx
expresses with regard to the interconnexion of these categories.

The four new ‘category-descriptions’ to “solve
for”, here, in this 3rd step of our reconstruction of the Marxian, dialectical“method of presentation” of his the Critique
of Political
Economy,
are described, ‘categorial-algebraically’, as, respectively CPEqSC, and CPEqSL, and CPEqSW, and CPEqSS.

The standard “canons of interpretation” of
the Seldonian ‘solution-«praxis»’,
for such algebraic ‘poly-qualinomial’ terms, expect the fifth and sixth category-descriptions
-- here CPEqSC, and CPEqSL -- to connote the
main process / product of the interaction of their subscripted categories /
epithets / predicates.

They also expect the seventh
category-description, here CPEqSW = CPEqSLC, to represent a second categorial “synthesis”, a synthesis of all of the first four categories, or of the fourth category, CPEqS, with the synthesis of the firsttwo categories, CPEqLC, i.e., with the third category, CPEqW -- thus, in a
sense, a ‘‘‘dialecticalcomplex unity’’’,
or “jointproduct / result”,
of the fourth
category, CPEqS, with all three of its preceding
categories,CPEqC,CPEqL, and CPEqW: i.e., with the first, «arché» category, CPEC,
and / with the second
--first contra -- category, CPEL,
or, said another way, with the synthesis
of the first
and second
categories, i.e., a combination of the fourth category with the third category, with CPEW= CPEqLC.

These “canons of interpretation” also expect
that the eighthcategory, CPEqSS, will stand for the
new result of a ‘self-combination’ of categoryCPEqS= CPES, that is, for a new
category each of whose units is a ‘meta-unit’ of units
of the categoryCPEqS , such that each
unit of categoryCPEqSS is made up out of a
heterogeneous multiplicity [i.e., of at least two] of the units
of categoryCPEqS.

More specifically to the case of this term, CPEqSS, the “canonical”
interpretation expects that this eighth
category-symbol might
describe an «arithmos», or ‘‘‘number’’’, of ‘meta-units’ -- “meta-“ to the units of the nation-Statecategory --
such that each such ‘meta-unit’ is “made up out of”,
or ‘‘‘«aufheben»-contains’’’,
a qualitatively heterogeneous
multiplicity of the units
of the nation-Statecategory, i.e., ‘‘‘contains’’’ a heterogeneous multiplicity of nation-states.

Let us solve for this eighth category first, since its
solution is easier to see, given the solutions for the ‘self-hybrid’ terms that
we have already seen, and solved for, in the preceding steps of solution
herein.

¿What
is a political-economic category whose units
are each heterogeneous multiplicities ofnation-States, the units of the nation-Statecategory?

If we consider that such units might be units of the interactions
between or among nation-Statesunits -- interactions
that, stabilized and continually reproduced, form the relations between or among nation-Statesunits, then the
most prominent political-economicrelations between or among nation-States
are trade-relations.

We know, from our general knowledge of
Marxian CPE -- Critique
of Political
Economy
-- domain, that Marx’s dialectical pedagogical principles
-- his dialectical method of presentation, as attested
also in the methodological passages from the «Grundrisse»
manuscripts that we extracted above -- call for an order of presentation that moves
from the simpler to the more complex; from less ‘determinations-rich’, to more
‘determinations-rich’.

Therefore, we expect that Marx would plan to
present inter-nation-Statetrade-relations, first, in their simplest,
most minimal manifestation, as trade-relationsbetweennation-States
-- thus bi-lateraltrade-relations -- and, only later, present
the more complex, more ‘determinations-rich’ phenomena of -- multi-lateraltrade-relations.

Therefore, we hold that the eighth category, described ‘dialectical-algebraically’
as CPEqSS,
is the category whose units are the distinct ‘‘‘ordered
pairs’’’, formed by the combination of each extant nation-State
with each other extant nation-State -- i.e., extant for that synchronic “slice”, or cross-section, of ‘diachronicity’ [i.e., of [human] history] that is
‘‘‘present’’’ for, and that is being ‘‘‘presented’’’ by, and in, the dialectical order of exposition
of the Critique
of Political
Economy
that is being reconstructed, with the help of our dialecticalmodel, herein.

Thus, the units of the eighth
category will be heterogeneous,
because each extant nation-State is qualitatively different
from each other extant nation-State, and in such a multitudinous, ‘‘‘multi-chromatic’’’
sense, and those units
will be constituted out of a multiplicity
of units of the
nation-Statecategory in the
minimal sense of exactly twonation-Statecategoryunits “in” eachunit of our eighth category.

Each unit
of our eighth category will
therefore represent a potential bi-lateraltrading-partnerspair
of nation-Stateunits.

The relationship between the CPES= CPEqScategory and the CPEqSScategory is thus a dialecticalrelationship, i.e., an «aufheben», ‘meta-monadological’relationship,
in that each unit of categoryCPEqSS is
a ‘meta-unit-ization’ -- i.e., is an «aufheben» negation / conservation / elevation -- of exactly twounits of categoryCPES= CPEqS.

Similarly, as we saw in step sCPE = 1,
the relationship of categoryCPEL to categoryCPEC
was also a dialectical,
«aufheben», ‘meta-monadological’relationship.

Likewise, as we saw in step sCPE = 2,
is the relationship of CPEL
to CPES
itself.

We therefore name this category, as did
Marx, the category of “International
Trade”, or “Foreign Trade”, which we will denote by CPEF,
and we therefore assert our solution as follows --

CPEqSS|-.=
CPEF

-- and our solution, so far, for the s = 3
‘equation-value’ of our Critique of Political Economy
‘meta-equation’, thus becomes --

CPE)-|-(s=CPE)-|-(3=(CPEC)23=CPEC8=

(CPEC4)2=(CPEC+CPEL+CPEW+CPES)2=

CPEC+CPEL+CPEW+CPES+

CPEqSC+CPEqSL+CPEqSW+CPEqSS=

CPEC+CPEL+CPEW+CPES+

CPEqSC+CPEqSL+CPEqSW+CPEF.

We have thus, so far, “solved for” -- and
‘“reconstructed”’, or ‘‘‘reproduced’’’, ‘dialectical-algebraically’ -- the firstfive of the six categories of Marx’s plan of presentation for
his Critique
of Political
Economy
entire, in the same
order as that into which Marx organized those categories, namely, for --

CPEC(----) Capital,
&

CPEL(----) Landed Property,
&

CPEW(----) Wage-Labour,
&

CPES(----) The State,
&

CPEF(----) Foreign Trade, & . . ..

-- the firstfive of Marx’s six categories, in Marx’s
order.

¿But,
then, why is the
last category as listed above, the category --

CPEF(----) Foreign Trade --

counted and ordered as category eight per our model, rather than as category
five, if our
model is a ‘‘‘fitting’’’ model of Marx’s Critique of Political
Economy
entire?

That question, together with its answer,
provide the keys to solution as to the meanings for our model’s categories five, six, and seven -- described, ‘dialectical-algebraically’,
by the symbolsCPEqSC,
and CPEqSL,
and CPEqSW,
respectively -- to which we now turn.

The “canonical” interpretation expects that
the fifth
‘category-symbol’, CPEqSC,
might describe an «arithmos»,
or ‘‘‘number’’’,
of ‘hybridunits’, uniting units of the nation-Statecategory, with units of the Capitalcategory, that
the sixth
‘category-symbol’, CPEqSL,
might describe an «arithmos»,
or ‘‘‘number’’’,
of ‘hybridunits’, uniting units of the nation-Statecategory, with units of the Landed Propertycategory, and
that the seventh
‘category-symbol’,CPEqSW,
might describe an «arithmos»,
or ‘‘‘number’’’,
of ‘hybridunits’, uniting units of the nation-Statecategory, with units of the Wage-Labourcategory.

Our general ‘solution-contention’ is that these
three ‘categorial unknowns’ -- whose ‘categorial solutions’ have to satisfy the
‘hybridization conditions’ of combining the categories of CPES
and CPEC, and/or
their units, of combining the categories CPES
and CPEL, and/or
their units, and of combining the categories CPES
and CPEW and/or
their units, respectively -- all ‘‘‘belong to /- within’’’ CPES;
all are ‘‘‘subordinate’’’
to CPES, all are sub-sections of the main section on CPES,
e.g., are sub-chapters
to the chapter about CPES,
or are sub-treatises
to the treatise about CPES,
and are therefore all “contained in” the CPES
treatise.

Therefore, these three categories do not count as main categories, hence do not model the titles, and the
contents, of any of Marx’s six planned treatises, as do the categories represented, by
this model, as CPEC,
CPEL, CPEW,
CPES, and CPEF.

They only count as sub-categories to / within main category CPES.

So, after all, CPEF
constitutes the fifthmain category, just as in Marx’s
plan.

Our specific ‘solution-contentions’ are as follows --

The sub-section connoted by the
algebraic, ‘unknown
category’ description, CPEqSC,
should describe interactions of nation-Stateunits with Capitalunits [with “individual
capitals”] -- interactions
that, stabilized and continually reproduced, form the “lawful” [‘‘‘maintainable’’’],
ongoing, typical, standard relation
between each nation-Stateunit and each Capitalunit;

The sub-section connoted by the
algebraic, ‘unknown
category’ description, CPEqSL,
should describe interactions of nation-Stateunits with Landed Propertyunits
[with individual land titles / title-holders] -- interactions that, stabilized and continually reproduced,
form the “lawful” [‘‘‘maintainable’’’] relation
between each nation-Stateunit and each Landed Propertyunit;

The sub-section connoted by the
algebraic, ‘unknown
category’ description, CPEqSW,
should describe interactions of nation-Stateunits with Wage-Laborunits, e.g., partitioned
and aggregated in terms of the Capitalunits, and/or in terms of
the Landed Propertyunits,
that “contain” / employ those units -- interactions
that, stabilized and continually reproduced, form the “lawful” [‘‘‘maintainable’’’]
relation between
each nation-Stateunit and each Wage-Laborunit.

The eight
new ‘category-descriptions’ to “solve for”, here, in this 4th step of our
reconstruction of the Marxian, dialectical“method of presentation”
of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy,
are described, ‘categorial-algebraically’, as, respectively CPEqFC,
and CPEqFL,
and CPEqFW,
and CPEqFS,
and CPEqFSC, and CPEqFSL, and CPEqFSW, and CPEqFF.

The standard “canons of interpretation” of
the Seldonian ‘solution-«praxis»’,
for such algebraic ‘poly-qualinomial’ terms, expect the ninth through fourteenth
category-descriptions -- here CPEqFC,
through C CPEqFSL -- to connote the main process
/ product of the interaction of their subscripted categories / epithets /
predicates.

They also expect the fifteenth
category-description, here CPEqFSW= CPEqFSLC,
to represent a second
categorial “synthesis”, a synthesis of
all of the first five
categories, or of the fifthmain category, CPEqF, with the synthesis of the firstthreemain
categories, CPErSLC,
i.e., with the synthesis of
the third and
fourthmain categories, CPErSW = CPErSLC --
thus, in a sense, a ‘‘‘dialecticalcomplex unity’’’,
or “jointproduct / result”,
of the fifthmain category, CPEqF, with all four of its preceding
categories,CPEqC, CPEqL, CPEqW,
and CPEqS:i.e., with the first, «arché» category, CPEC,
and / with the second
--first contra -- category, CPEL,
or, said another way, with the synthesis
of the first
and second
categories, with CPEW= CPEqLC, and / with the fourth category, and / with
the fifthmain category, yielding a combination of
the fifthmain and fourth categories with the third category, with CPEqFSW= CPEqFSLC.

These “canons of interpretation” also expect
that the sixteenth
category, CPEqFF, will stand for the new result
of a ‘self-combination’,
or ‘self-hybridization’,
of category CPEqF= CPEF, that is, a new
category each of whose units is a ‘meta-unit’ of units of the category CPEqF, such that each unit of category
CPEqFF is made up out of a heterogeneous multiplicity [i.e., of at
least two] of
the units of category CPEqF.

More specifically to the case of this term, CPEqFF, the “canonical” interpretation
expects that this sixteenth
category-symbol might
describe an «arithmos», or ‘‘‘number’’’, of ‘meta-units’
-- “meta-“ to the units of
the Foreign Tradecategory -- such that each
such ‘meta-unit’ is “made up out of”, or ‘‘‘«aufheben»-contains’’’, a
qualitatively heterogeneousmultiplicity of the units of the Foreign Tradecategory, i.e., ‘‘‘internalizes’’’ a heterogeneous multiplicity of bi-lateral
trade relations.

Again, let us solve for this sixteenth category first, since its
solution is easier to see, given the solutions for the ‘self-hybrid’ terms that
we have already seen, and solved for, in the preceding steps of solution
herein.

¿What
is a political-economic category whose units
are eachheterogeneous
multiplicities ofbi-lateral trade relations,
the units of the Foreign Tradecategory?

Consider that such units, the units of category CPEqFF, might be units of the multilateraltrade relations, uniting three or more bi-lateral trade relationsunits, organized around
each ‘World MarketCommodity’
-- all of the supplier / exporter nation-States in
relation to all of the purchaser / importer nation-States, for
each given ‘World MarketCommodity’.

These multilateraltrade relations for each specific ‘World MarketCommodity’,
stabilized and continually reproduced, form the World Market itself.

We know, from our general knowledge of
Marxian CPE -- Critique
of Political
Economy
-- domain, that Marx’s dialectical pedagogical principles
-- his dialectical method of presentation, as attested
also in the methodological passages from the «Grundrisse»
manuscripts that we extracted above -- call for an order of presentation that moves
from the simpler to the more complex; from less ‘determinations-rich’, to more
‘determinations-rich’.

Therefore, we expect that Marx would plan to
present inter-nation-Statetrade-relations, first, in their simplest,
most minimal manifestation, as trade-relationsbetweennation-States
-- thus bi-lateraltrade-relations -- and, only later, present
the more complex, more ‘determinations-rich’ phenomena of -- multi-lateraltrade-relations.

Therefore, we hold that the sixteenth category, described ‘dialectical-algebraically’
as CPEqFF, is the category whose units are the distinct ‘‘‘ordered n-tuples, n>3’’’, for each
world-traded commodity, formed by the combination of all extant nation-States
involved in the traffic of each given ‘World
MarketCommodity’.

These are the very units that constitute “The World Market”.

The units
of the sixteenth category
will be heterogeneous,
because each extant supplier / exporter nation-State, and
each given distinct purchaser/ importer nation-State, are
qualitatively different from each other, in such multitudinous, ‘‘‘multi-chromatic’’’ ways,
and those units will
be constituted out of a multiplicity
of units of the
bi-lateral trade
relationsForeign
Tradecategory,
because at least threebi-lateral trade
relationscategoryunits will be “contained in”
eachunit of our sixteenth category.

Each unit
of our sixteenth category
will therefore represent a potential multi-lateraltrading-partnersmultiplicity
of bi-lateral trade
relationscategoryunits.

The relationship between the CPEF= CPEqFcategory and the CPEqFFcategory is thus a dialecticalrelationship, i.e., an «aufheben», ‘meta-monadological’relationship, in that
each unit of categoryCPEqFF is a ‘meta-unit-ization’ -- i.e., is an «aufheben» negation / conservation / elevation -- of three or more units of categoryCPEF= CPEqF.

Similarly, as we saw in step sCPE = 1,
the relationship of categoryCPEL to categoryCPEC
was also a dialectical,
«aufheben», ‘meta-monadological’relationship.

Likewise a dialectical, ‘meta-monadological’, the relationship of CPES
to CPEL.

Likewise a dialectical, ‘meta-monadological’,
the relationship
of CPEF itself to CPES.

We therefore name this category, as did
Marx, the category of “World
Market”, or ‘“Global Market”’, which we will denote by CPEM,
and we therefore assert our solution as follows --

We have thus, so far, “solved for” -- and
‘“reconstructed”’, or ‘‘‘reproduced’’’, ‘dialectical-algebraically’ -- the six named categories of
Marx’s plan of presentation
for his Critique
of Political
Economy
entire, in the same
order as that into which Marx organized those categories, namely, for --

CPEC(----) Capital,
&

CPEL(----) Landed Property,
&

CPEW(----) Wage-Labour,
&

CPES(----) The State,
&

CPEF(----) Foreign Trade, &

CPEM(----) World Market.

-- all six of Marx’s categories, in Marx’s systematic order.

¿But,
then, again, why is
the last category as listed above, the category --

CPEM(----) World Market --

counted and ordered as category sixteen per our model, rather than as
category six,
if our model is a ‘‘‘fitting’’’ model of Marx’s Critique of Political
Economy
entire?

That question, together with its answer,
provide the keys to solution as to the meanings for our model’s categories nine through fifteen -- described, ‘dialectical-algebraically’,
by the symbols CPEqFC,CPEqFL,
CPEqFW,
CPEqFS,
CPEqFSC, CPEqFSL, andCPEqFSW, respectively -- to which we
now turn.

The “canonical” interpretation expects that
the ninth ‘category-symbol’,
CPEqFC,
might describe an «arithmos»,
or ‘‘‘number’’’,
of ‘hybridunits’, uniting units of the ForeignTradecategory, with units of the Capitalcategory, that
the tenth
‘category-symbol’, CPEqFL,
might describe an «arithmos»,
or ‘‘‘number’’’, of ‘hybridunits’, uniting units of the ForeignTradecategory, with units of the Landed Propertycategory, that
the eleventh
‘category-symbol’, CPEqFW,
might describe an «arithmos»,
or ‘‘‘number’’’,
of ‘hybridunits’, uniting units of the ForeignTradecategory, with units of the Wage-Labourcategory, and
that the twelfth
‘category-symbol’, CPEqFS,
might describe an «arithmos»,
or ‘‘‘number’’’,
of ‘hybridunits’, uniting units of the ForeignTradecategory, with units of the nation-Statecategory.

Our general solution-contention is that these four
‘categorial unknowns’ -- whose ‘categorial solutions’ have to satisfy the
‘hybridization conditions’ of combining the categories of CPEF
and CPEC, and/or
their units, of combining the categories CPEF
and CPEL, and/or
their units, of combining the categories CPEF
and CPEW and/or
their units, and of combining the categories CPEF
and CPES and/or their
units, respectively -- all ‘‘‘belong to / belong subsumed within’’’ CPEF;
all are ‘‘‘subordinate’’’
to CPEF, all are sub-sections of the main section on CPEF,
e.g., are sub-chapters
to the chapter about CPEF,
or are sub-treatises
to the treatise about CPEF,
and are therefore all “contained in” the CPEF
treatise.

Therefore, these four categories do not count as main categories, hence do not model the titles, and the
contents, of any of Marx’s six planned treatises, as do the categories represented, by
this model, as CPEC,
CPEL, CPEW,
CPES, CPEF,
and CPEM.

They only count as sub-categories to / within main category CPEF,
i.e., as mere species
of its «genos».

So, after all, if categories CPEqFSC, CPEqFSL, andCPEqFSW are also interpretable as
representing sub-categories
to / within main category CPEF,
then CPEM constitutes
the sixthmain category, just as in Marx’s plan.

Our specific contentions are as follows --

·The sub-section connoted by the
algebraic, ‘unknown
category’ description, CPEqFC,
should describe those interactions of Foreign-Tradeunits with Capitalunits [with “individual
capitals”] -- interactions
that, stabilized and continually re-engaged, instantiate the content of the “lawful”
[‘‘‘maintainable’’’], ongoing, typical, standard, “normal”, reproducedrelation, including the juridical provisions,
essential to the continuation / self-reproduction of any capital-centered
society, between each Foreign-Tradeunit and each Capitalunit;

·The sub-section connoted by the
algebraic, ‘unknown
category’ description, CPEqFL,
should describe those interactions of Foreign-Tradeunits with Landed Propertyunits
[with individual land titles / title-holders] -- interactions that, stabilized and continually reproduced, instantiate
the content of the “lawful” [‘‘‘maintainable’’’], ongoing, typical, standard,
“normal”, reproducedrelation, including the juridical
provisions, essential to the continuation / self-reproduction of any
capital-centered society, between each Foreign-Tradeunit and each Landed Propertyunit;

·The sub-section connoted by the
algebraic, ‘unknown
category’ description, CPEqFW=CPEqFLC, should describe interactions of
Foreign-Tradeunits with Wage-Laborunits, e.g.,
partitioned and aggregated in terms of the Capitalunits, and/or in terms of
the Landed Propertyunits,
that “contain” / employ those units -- interactions
that, stabilized and continually reproduced, instantiate the content of the
“lawful” [‘‘‘maintainable’’’], ongoing, typical, standard, “normal”, reproducedrelation, including the juridical
provisions, essential to the continuation / self-reproduction of any
capital-centered society, between each Foreign-Tradeunit and each Wage-Laborunit;

·The sub-section connoted by the
algebraic, ‘unknown
category’ description, CPEqFS,
should describe interactions of Foreign-Tradeunits with nation-Stateunits, units -- interactions
that, stabilized and continually reproduced, instantiate the content of the
“lawful” [‘‘‘maintainable’’’], ongoing, typical, standard, “normal”, reproducedrelation, including the juridical
provisions, necessary to the continuation / self-reproduction of any
capital-centered society, between each Foreign-Tradeunit and each nation-Stateunit.

We interpret them as representing categories
describing the ‘‘‘relation’’’ of categoryCPEF, and/or of
its units, to categoriesCPEqSC, CPEqSL,
andCPEqSW,
respectively, and/or to their units,
respectively.

As such, they should also count as sub-categories to / within main category CPEF,
i.e., as but three additional species of its «genos».

The progress of our reconstruction, so far,
can be presented pictorially as per the depiction pasted-in below --

If we depict the partial Table Of Contents
[TOC] that corresponds to the step sCPE = 4model of our “Marxian Critique of
Political Economy Entire meta-model’, then we have --

-- such that our “Marxian Critique
of Political Economy Entire meta-model’ can be specified as
follows --

-- and we might conclude
that we are done.

But, if we did so conclude,
we hold, we would be wrong.

To end our reconstruction of
Marx’s Critique of Political Economy ENTIRE
here would not do justice to his outline notes, coming right after his positing
of the World Market rubric --

“Encroachment of bourgeois
society over the state.”

“Crises.”

“Dissolution of the
mode of production and form of society based on exchange value.”

“Real positing of
individual labor as social and vice versa. ...”.

Such a premature end would
not do justice to Marx’s «Grundrisse» statements, e.g., that --

“...Crises are then the
general intimation which points
beyond the presupposition[ =the World Market -- M.D.], and
the urge which
drives towards
the adoption of a new
historic form.” [p. 228]

-- and that --

“...the development of the
productive forces
brought about by the historical development of capital itself, when it reaches a certain stage, suspends [‘«aufhebens»’ -- M.D.] the self-realization of capital itself, instead of positing it.”

“Beyond a certain point, the development of thepowersofproduction becomes a barrier for capital; hence thecapitalrelation a barrier for the development of theproductivepowersoflabor.”

“When it has reached this point, capital, i.e. wagelabor, enters into the same relation towards
the development of social wealth and of theforcesofproduction as
the guildsystem, serfdom, slavery, and is necessarily stripped off as a fetter.”

“The
last formofservitude assumed by human activity, that of wagelaboron one side, capital
on the other, is thereby cast off like a skin, and this casting-off is itself
the result of the modeofproduction corresponding to capital; the
material and mental conditions of the negation of wagelabor
and of capital,
themselves already the negation
of earlier forms of unfree
social production, are themselves the result of its production
process.”

“The violent
destruction of capital, not by
relations external
to it, but rather as a
condition of its self-preservation, is the most
striking form in which advice
is given it to be gone and to give room to a higher state of social production...”

“Hence the highest
development of productivepower
together with the greatest expansion of existing wealth
will coincide with depreciation of capital, degradation of the laborer,
and a most straitened exhaustionofhisvitalpowers.”

“These contradictions lead to explosions, cataclysms, crises, in which, by momentaneous suspension of all labor and annihilation of a great portion of capital
the latter is violently
reduced to the point where it can go on fully employing its productivepowers without committing suicide.”

“Yet these regularly recurring catastrophes lead to their repetition on a higherscale
and finally to its violent
overthrow.” [pp. 749-750].

“Dissolution of the
mode of production and form of society based on exchange value.”

“Real positing of
individual labor as social and vice versa. ...”.

-- especially for Marx to
have elaborated his full theory of Crises, about which mere hints
are sprinkled throughout the «Grundrisse», A
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, and all four
volumes of«Das Kapital»,
including in the longer «Grundrisse» passage just
extracted above, we hold that Marx would have found that he needed a separate
treatise, a seventhtreatise.

True, Marx’s fully and only synchronic, systematicdialecticalpresentation of the [then-]present global capitalist
system would have ended with the sixth treatise, Of The World Market.

But Marx’s overalldialectical method
-- systematic-dialectical
and historical-dialecticalunited -- would have led him to write a final and climactic treatise,
viz., per the passage already quoted earlier, above --

“... our method indicates the
points where historical
investigation must enter in, or where bourgeois economy as a merely historical
form of the production process points beyond itself to earlier historical modes
of production.”

“In order to develop the
laws of bourgeois economy, it is not necessary to write the real history of the relations of
production.”

“But correct observation and
deduction of these laws, as having themselves become in history, always leads to primary
equations -- like the empirical numbers, e.g. in natural science -- which point
towards a past lying behind
this system.”

“These indications [Andeutung],
together with a correct grasp of the present, then also offer the key to the
understanding of the past-- a work in its own right which, it is to be
hoped, we shall be able to undertake as well [M.D.:Alas!].”

“This correct view likewise
leads at the same time to points at which the suspension [M.D.:i.e., the [self-]«aufheben»] of the present form of
production relations gives signs of its becoming -- foreshadowings of the future.”

Just as, on one side, the
pre-bourgeois phases appear as merely historical, i.e., suspended [M.D.:i.e., as already [self-]«aufheben»-ed]
presuppositions, so do the contemporary
conditions of production likewise appear as engaged in suspending themselves [M.D.:i.e., as presentlyengaged in perhaps onlythe earliest stages of their
own self-«aufheben» process] and hence in positing historic presuppositions
for a new state of society.”.

[op. cit., pp. 275-276].

We therefore hold that, in
the inferred seventh
treatise, Marx would have elaborated from, and upon, the [then-]presentforeshadowings of his
predicted future epoch and mode of social reproduction
-- the society of“the associated producers”
-- along with his theory of capitalist World Crises, and upon the
general strategy of the global working-class movement in response to those Crises,
methodologically /
dialectically deriving, from his
analysis of those foreshadowings,
the characteristics
of the successor social
system to the
capitals-system, and in far greater
detail than in any of his extant writings, whether in Chapter XXXII of volume I of Capital,
or in Chapter XXVII
of its volume III,
or in the «Grundrisse» manuscripts, or in the Critique of the Gotha Program.

Let us see if we can
reconstruct the analytical title, and the top-level table of contents, of that
final, climactic treatise, using the «organon» of our dialectical ‘meta-equationmeta-model’ of the Marxian Critique
of Political Economy entire.